Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations: Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)

Synopsis

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other development interventions, declining viability of small-holder agriculture livelihoods, male out-migration from rural areas, and climate change. This book addresses how these changes involve fluctuations in gendered labour and decision making on farms and in agriculture and, in many places, have resulted in the feminization of agriculture at a time of unprecedented climate change. Chapters uncover both how women successfully innovate and how they remain disadvantaged when compared to men in terms of access to land, labor, capital and markets that would enable them to succeed in agriculture. Building on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book interrogates how new agricultural innovations from agricultural research, new technologies and value chains reshape gender relations. Using new methodological approaches and intersectional analyses, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agriculture, gender, sustainable development and environmental studies more generally.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780429763816

Related ISBNs:

9780429427381, 9781138384941, 9781138384941

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/21/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Carolyn E. Sachs